deltalogging

Logging

Node.js logging object for Delta Sonic logs data to console, log files, and syslog

Installation

npm install deltalogging

Dependencies

It has a couple of external dependencies:

• NPM - this is the node.js package manager. you'll need this to install the other dependencies.
• NodeSyslogUDP - Syslogging client for node

After installing node on your machine (assuming linux - installs for other operation systems will be similar):

npm install syslogudp

Functions

function sendError(message, err, res, connection)

This function takes a message (string), an error (object), a response object, and a mysql connection (object) and does the following:

• log the message and error to the console
• log the message and error to a file in ./Logs
• log the message and error to syslog (172.18.0.4 / 60001 UDP)
• return the message and status code 500 in the response object
• close the mysql connection

logMessage (message, logLevel)

• log the message and error to the console
• log the message and error to a file in ./Logs
• log the message and error to syslog (172.18.0.4 / 60001 UDP)

Use

logger=require('deltalogging');

logger.sendError('Message', error, res, connection);